Speech and Language Therapy is the practice of improving skills; such as language, speech sounds, and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), to teach greater independence across a variety of communication performance areas. Pediatric speech therapists use preferred activities and play-based techniques to motivate children to engage in communication with others, improve cognitive processing, and be understood clearly by their peers and family.

Speech Therapy Can Provide the Following Services & Address the Following Areas:

• Comprehensive Speech/Language Evaluations
• Oral motor delays
• Language delays or difficulties
• Difficulty with swallowing, feeding, and eating
• Poor oral motor planning skills
• Poor executive functioning skills; problem solving, question understanding/answering, following directions
• Identify phonological processing difficulties and solutions
• Work on fluency difficulties, such as stuttering
• Provide resources, evaluations, and intervention regarding communication options, such as AAC
• Teach children and their caregivers how to use augmentative communication throughout their daily routine
• Teach language processing strategies for better communication and understanding
• Teach sentence formation and age appropriate language skills
• Play-based approach to achieving developmental milestones
• Implement multi-sensory learning strategies
• Comprehensive feeding evaluations
• Play-based approach to Feeding Therapy
• Parent/Caregiver education within treatment sessions for optimal carryover
• Development of Home Programs

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